Word: abolishment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Republican leadership in Congress means to sever all links between American government and American culture. It wants the Federal Government to give no support at all to music, theater, ballet, opera, film, intelligent television, literature, history, archaeology, museum work, architectural conservation and the visual arts. It intends to abolish federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And it wants to do it tomorrow...
...patronage to encourage promising forms of artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their way in the marketplace. This is a thin rope to walk; the NEA fell off it and broke a leg. But you don't kill the endowment over that, any more than you abolish the U.S. Navy because of Tailhook...
...feel the Shin Bet is to Israel what the CIAis to America. If I could abolish it today Iwould. The crimes of the Shin Bet have beenthoroughly documented. Amnesty Internationalreports it all the time.... I stands by what Iwrote," said Marius who had been authoring thecolumn for Harvard Magazine since...
House and Senate conferees split the differences separating the two chambers and announced they had reached a compromise for a seven-year balanced-budget plan. They agreed to recommend that both Houses adopt nearly $1 trillion in spending cuts, approve $245 billion worth of tax reductions and abolish the Commerce Department...
...appropriations committees where,TIME's Karen Tumultyreports, "the real work is already being done." The triumphant GOP package, she adds, falls short of promises by Kasich and others to eliminate a spate of federal agencies and offer $300 billion in tax cuts. The current plan would, however, abolish the Commerce Department...